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In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Paul Evans

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Truest
Hurry
Christmas
Forgotten
Gift
Keep
Self

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